2009/4/22 psmith psmith@fedoraproject.org:
suvayu ali wrote:
Thanks for the thought, but I'm aware of the XFCE Live CDs. My question is since live CDs don't offer the option to choose the kind of install, not even the option to choose the partition on the disk, upgrading to a clean XFCE desktop is not possible without loosing my current partitioning scheme. Is my understanding correct here?
no this is not correct, when you choose install to disk from the livecd desktop it starts anaconda and you can set the keyboard and language settings as well as set up custom partitions, or tell it to use existing partitions no problem, the only thing i found that was i had persistence set on my live usb and when i did finaly get round to installing to the hard drive none of the stuff that i had changed since first running the live usb (eg the stuff on the persistent part of it) didn't get transferred across, now this was with the f11 beta xfce snapshot so i'm not sure if it's just a problem with that spin, or if it happens with all live spins.
phil
Thank you Phil for correcting my misconceptions. This is great news for me. Now I can move to a completely Gnome free XFCE desktop for F11. :)